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Eroded allocations threaten
quality Constantly increasing costs and no compensation for actual wage increases. This erodes basic education, which affects the quality of teaching. – It feels like being part of a Thelma & Louise film, where you accelerate towards an abyss at full speed, says Henrik Agndal, Head of the Department of Business Administration.
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GUJOURNAL OCTOBER 2021
SINCE 2018, the LKP or löne
kostnadspåslaget (social insurance contributions, insurance and pension payments) has increased every year and for 2022, a further increase of 1.5 percent was announced. The numbers speak for themselves. Between 2019 and 2020, salary costs at the University of Gothenburg increased by 3.7 percent – including contractual wage increases, new recruitments and promotions as well as increases in the LKP – but compensation from the state, i.e. what is called the wage and price appreciation, was only 1.72 percent. – Anyone can understand that this equation cannot be solved. The cost of each hour
in the lecture hall is increasing more than the increase in funding. While industry can take into account increased costs by negotiating with subcontractors, we are in an impossible situation. What should we be negotiating? A reduction in administration or teaching? Nor can we keep expanding education forever. Year after year, teaching is depleted financially. – THE CONSEQUENCES are
that lecturers have less time for lecturing, supervision and providing feedback. A few percent here or there may not be that significant in a year’s time, but over time it will make a big difference.
